Only a smidgen of unimportant time phenomena in the first paragraph of this ominous first contact story.
—Michael Main
But Alveron and his kind had been lords of the Universe since the dawn of history, since that far distant age when the Time Barrier had been folded round the cosmos by the unknown powers that lay beyond the Beginning.

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  1. “Rescue Party” by Arthur C. Clarke, Astounding Science Fiction, May 1946.
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  2. audio reading.“Rescue Party” by Arthur C. Clarke, Escape Pod #400, 18 June 2013 [podcast] [Accessed at Escape Pod[/url on 24 May 2022].
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Norm Sherman
    Graeme Dunlop
    Seerah Eley
    Nathaniel Lee
    Mur Lafferty
    Paul Haring
    Alasdair Stuart
    Dave Thompson
    Ben Phillips
    Jeremiah Tolbert

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  1. Dutch.
    “Rettungsexpedition” [Rescue expedition] by Arthur C. Clarke, in Een nieuwe dageraad en andere verhalen (Elsevier, 1979).
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  2. French.
    “Expédition de secours” [Relief expedition] by Arthur C. Clarke, in Demain, moisson d'étoiles (Denoël, 1960).
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Arthur C. Clarke
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  3. French.
    “Expédition de secours” [Relief expedition] by Arthur C. Clarke, in Avant l’Eden (J’ai Lu, April 1978).
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    Tom Clegg (revision)
  4. German.
    “Rettungsexpedition” [Rescue expedition] by Arthur C. Clarke, Utopia Science Fiction Magazin #9, December 1957.
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  5. German: alternative title of “Rettungsexpedition” (1957).“Die Retter” [The rescuers] by Arthur C. Clarke, in Science-Fiction Stories 28, edited by Donald Wollheim (Ullstein, September 1973.
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  6. German.
    “Rettungsexpedition” [Rescue expedition] by Arthur C. Clarke, in Ein Treffen mit Medusa (Bastei Lübbe, September 1986).
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  7. Italian.
    “Operazione di salvataggio” [Rescue operation] by Arthur C. Clarke, Scienza Fantastica #1, April 1952.
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  8. Italian.
    “Spedizione di soccorso” [Rescue expedition] by Arthur C. Clarke, Urania #444, 11 September 1966.
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  9. Italian.
    “Spedizione di soccorso” [Rescue expedition] by Arthur C. Clarke, Urania #1442, 30 June 2002.
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  10. Japanese.
    “太陽系最後の日” [Last day of the solar system], as by A・C・クラーク, S-Fマガジン, February 1960.
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  11. Portuguese.
    “Missão de salvamento” [Rescue mission] by Arthur C. Clarke, in Antologia cósmica, edited by Fausto Cunha (Francisco Alves, 1981).
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  12. Portuguese.
    “Grupo de Salvamento” [Rescue group] by Arthur C. Clarke, in [Em Busca do Futuro[/em] (Edições 70, 1990).
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